README.md

April 30, 2026 · View on GitHub

Mindolph

Mindolph is an open source personal knowledge management software with Gen-AI support for all desktop platforms. 简体中文

Features

  • Create and manage your own files in separate workspaces with saving in your local storage, which means you have full control of your knowledge compared to cloud solutions.
  • Organize your files as a tree in your workspaces.
  • AI support for Mind Map, Markdown, PlantUML and plain text editors, you can generate or summarize text content by API of LLM. Supported LLM providers:
    • OpenAI
    • Ali Qwen
    • Ollama
    • Google Gemini API
    • Hugging Face API
    • ChatGLM
    • DeepSeek
    • Moonshot
  • Multiple tabs for opening files instead of a single file window, making it easy to switch back and forth between files.
  • Supports Mind Map(*.mmd), Markdown(*.md), PlantUML(*.puml), CSV sheet(*.csv) and plain text(*.txt) file formats, more formats will be supported in the future.
  • Save opened files as a named Collection to manage related files even from different workspaces.
  • Outline view for active opened file.
  • Snippet feature to quickly insert pre-defined or user-defined snippets to Mind Map, PlantUML and Markdown files.
  • Quickly navigate to any file and search text in files under any specific folder.
  • Mind Map:
    • Edit mind map easily and quickly with key shortcuts.
    • Supports themes and provides some pre-defined themes(Classic, Light and Dark), customizing themes by duplicating existing themes and setup the style of any element freely.
    • Supports note, file link, URI link, image and emoticon for topic node.
    • Import from other mind map formats like Freemind, Mindmup, XMind, Coggle, Novamind.
    • Export to other file formats like Freemind, Markdown, image files(png/svg), AsciiDoc, etc.
    • Compatible with mind map files created by netbeans-mmd-plugin.
  • PlantUML:
    • Syntax highlighting.
    • Preview results instantly while editing.
    • Export to image file and ASCII image.
  • Markdown
    • Syntax highlighting.
    • Preview results instantly while editing.
    • Export to PDF and HTML files.
  • CSV Sheet
    • Show and edit CSV file visually.
  • Supports multiple desktop platforms, including macOS, Windows and Linux.

Screenshots

  • Mind Map

    

  • Markdown

    

  • PlantUML

    

    

  • Gen-AI

    

  • Others

    

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Releases

Release Notes

Downloads

PlatformTypeStableUnstableNote
macOS.dmgv1.13.6v1.14.2Apple Silicon
for supporting PlantUML, install graphviz first:
brew install graphviz
Windows.msiv1.13.6v1.14.2
Debian/Ubuntu.debv1.13.6v1.14.2for supporting PlantUML, install graphviz first:
sudo apt install graphviz
Fedora.rpmv1.13.6v1.14.2
Java Executable.jarv1.13.6v1.14.2see how to run
macOS.dmgv1.13.6Intel (Not provide any more since v1.14)

Change Logs

Development

Mindolph is developed based on JavaFX, see code/README.md for more details.

Future Plan:

  • 1.14: Improvement Mind Map editor and implement i18n.
  • 1.15: Improvement of AI features.

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